Something Sacred: Conversations, Writing, Paintings

by Mary Barnes, Ann Scott

Book by Barnes, Mary, Scott, Ann

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Mary Edith Barnes was an English artist and writer who suffered from schizophrenia and became a successful painter. She is particularly known for her documentation of her experience at R.D. Laing's experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, London. She is referenced in the book The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson and Thomas Szasz's Schizophrenia.